"Mental inertia is death."
"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them."
"Let's tell young people the best books are yet to be written; the best painting, the best government, the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
  • Press agent: "How do I get our leading lady's name in your newspaper?"
  • George S. Kaufman: "Shoot her."
    (11/16/1889 – 06/02/1961)
    US writer
George S. Kaufman
"I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all." Vita Sackville-West
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth." Andres Segovia
"I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was." Reginald Carey Harrison
"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for."
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."